Alan Jay Lerner Quotes

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone.

It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state ... it means the end of a thousand years of history.

Great Britain Is No Longer An Island.

I've been living in England for a while, and I am still trying to figure out why we have Great Britain playing the Olympics together and England in football.

Up until I think eighth grade - when I found out in front of a roomful of people - I believed that England and Great Britain were two entirely different places. Like I didn't know that England was a part of Great Britain. I thought they were completely separate in every way.

England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!

Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.

Great Britain.

Lies here food for the worms yet the work shall not be lost.

I'm single. I don't have a family. I certainly don't have to work. I don't want to be the richest man in the cemetery.

It's unimaginable to meet a Pole or a German who does not know about the history of their country. But lots of English people don't know the difference between Britain and England.

I've always liked England.

Life continues, irrespective of whether we are there or not.

Dover is part of England. It simply can't be part of anywhere else.

I've always been passionate about England.

I like England, but L.A.'s warmer.

I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the empty fields of a planet a Galaxy away. You won't always be here. But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons - "The work was free. Keep it so.

Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.

All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.

There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.